a morbid taste for bones by ellis peters

They lived in a small community situated a short distance from Dawley. Her brother/eldest sibling was named Ellis, the name she later adopted as her pseudonym. She was the last-born in a family of three children. In Death and the Joyful Woman (1961), he returns as a 16-year-old whose girlfriend is connected with murder the novel, like the many Felse family mysteries that followed it, was published under the name Ellis Peters.Edith Mary Pargeter, better-known by her pen name, Ellis Peters, was born in 1913, just before the onset of WWI, in Horsehay, a village on the western outskirts of Dawley, Shropshire, England. Under her own name she published the mystery Fallen into the Pit (1951), featuring 13-year-old Dominic Felse. She Goes to War (1942) is based on her experiences in military service. Though her first crime novel, Murder in the Dispensary, was published in 1938 (under the name Jolyon Carr), for most of the next 20 years she concentrated on other genres. Beginning in the mid-1930s she wrote historical fiction and crime novels, using her own name and several pseudonyms. Peters worked as a pharmacist’s assistant during the 1930s and served in the Women’s Royal Navy Service from 1940 to 1945. 14, 1995, Madelay, Shropshire), English novelist especially noted for two series of mysteries: one featuring medieval monastics in Britain and the other featuring a modern family. 28, 1913, Horsehay, Shropshire, Eng.-died Oct.

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